Trouble formatting flash disk
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Aug 18 18:13:23 UTC 2009
Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a pendrive (flash memory) which lists in /proc/bus/usb/devices as:
...
> And I've tried to format it as ext2 (so I can backup my home directory).
> It happens that no matter what I do (and I've tried almost everything)
> it formats but no matter what I do when I record a large file (2GBytes)
> it generates file system inconsistencies.
>
> First I thought that perhaps the device was defective. But when I try to
> write and read it, everything seems to be OK. It even passes badblock -w ...
>
> Any suggestions on what may be wrong?
Could you take this to the linux-ext4 list? It'd be the more
appropriate place for the discussion.
It'd be good to know the details of the errors you see, too.
Thanks,
-Eric
> Best regards,
>
> CdAB
>
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